Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-21
PROHIBITION.
The Amendment Passes the House
Yesterday 30 to 10.
THE FIGHT WILL BE In THE SENATE.
Nine Votes Against 1t In that Body Which
Would Defeat h4-PrOpOsed
Amendments.
ON The SENATORIAL SITUATION.
The Local Feeling as MIrrOred in an Editorial
Of Last Evenings Charleston
Newspaper.
ON The SENATORIAL SITUATION.
LEGISLATIVE MATTERS GENERALLY.
The Ohio Delegates Tobacco Tax Repeal
Msasure-=Fhs- Vitai Statistics Bill
General News Notes.
Snsrial Tt,emaa % Ne Reaiaer.

Special TtIegrd,a 10 ne Register.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, January 90
The prohibition amendment passed the
House of Delegates this morning by vote
of 81 to 10.
The ten voting against it were, Chancel-
lor and Keller, of Wood, Chew and Lucas,
of Jefferson, Garden. Gleason, Whitaker
and Woods, of Ohio, Pugh, of Hampshire,
and ROpp, of Berkeley.
THE FULL TEXT
of the resolution is n follows:
House Joint Resolution No. l, proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of
the State, prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors.
ReSOired By the Legislature Of West JHyiHid,
tro-tkirls Of mMc Members elected 10 each
House agreeing thereto:
That the following be and the same is
proposed rs an amendment to the COnsti
tuition of this State, to-wit: That Section
&c of Article of said Constitution as it
now is be stricken out and the following
he inserted in lieu thereof: SEC. lG. The
manufacture, sale and keeping for sale of
all intoxicating, liquors, drinks, mix
lures and preparations, except as
hereinafter provided, are forever
prohibited within this State,
and the Legislature shall without delay
provide, by appropriate legislation, for
the strict enforcement of this provision,
but the Legislature may provide by law,
for the manufacture, sale, and keeping for
sale, of alcohol and preparations thereof
for scientific, mechanical and medicinal
purposes. and wine for sacramcntal pur-
poses, under sufficient penalties and securi-
ties to ensure the due execution of such
laws rs may he enacted under this section.
MR.. WOODS PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
Woods, OF Ohio, moved to refer to the
Judiciary Committee, with instructions
To report the following amendment:
R,SoIrsd By the Legislature Of IICst Jirgiaia:
That the following amendment to sec
tion 40, Of article q, of the Constitution Of
this State having been read on three sew
cral days in each House is agreed to on its
third reading, two thirds of the members
elected to each House so agreeing, that is
to say, but this amendment shall not ex-
tend or apply Ia any county in which ut
lial ha
Ia the voters for rejection or ratification,
Il greater number OF votes shall be cast for
the rejection than TOR the ratification
thereof.
THE HOUSE IEFUSEDTO AGREE
to the motion and the resolution will be
reported to the Senate tomorrow.
The main fight over the Prohibition
amendment will take place in the Senate,
while the friends Of the movement claim
to have the required two-thirds vote, the
opposition resist to the contrary and feel
confident that they will have nine votes
against it. A number sufficient to defeat
it.
Senator Morris proposed amendment
which is similar to that passed by the
House, was considered briefly
BY the Senate to = day in
connection with the Judiciary Committees
reports that it be amended by striking out
the word manufacture" and making it
applicable only to the sale and keeping for
sale of liquor, &c. The bill was made the
special order for next Tuesday in order to
give Senator Scott, who is now confined to
his room by sickness, an opportunity to
offer certain amendments which he desires
To offer.
THE PESITENTIARY INVESTIGATION.
Speaker Rowan to-day appointed his
members on the Penitentiary Investigation
Committee The committee is composed
of Senators Brown, Scott and Van Pelt,
on the part of the Senate, and Delegates
Hiner, Kinsey, Crow, Jones and McKin-
noy, on the part of the House.
The committee will hardly leave for
Moundsyille before the Senatorial contest
has been decided AZ the members compOs-
ing il are reluctant to be absent when u
United States Senator is voted for.
The bill comforting additional powers on
the West Virginia Central Railroad, eX
Senator III. G.. Davis road, passed to 4
second reading in the Senate to-day. The
bill permits the changing of the route so as
to bring it along the Elk and Kanawha
rivers and to this place.
VITAL STATISTICS BILL.
DR.. T. 4. Harris, Secretary of the State
Board of Health, is here and and will in
trOduce, or have bill introduced, looking
to better sanitary measures throughout the
State and the proper registration Of mar
Iiages, births and deaths, and the causes Of
death in the several counties of the State.
The bill will provide for re-
ports by local Boards of Health
TO the Secretary of the State Board OF all
these matters. BY this means he says, the
BOard will be enabled to better determine
the sanitary measures to be adjusted in
the different counties. Through these re-
ports they will be better able to ascertain
in which of the counties typhoid fever
exists to the greatest extent and the reaS-
ons thereof, a. we'll as of all other diseases.
WHAT MASON SAID.
Mason told me this evening that he had
sent the following telegram to his paper:
Il am authorized to say not one OF the
thirteen anti-Standard Oil Democrats will
ever give wav. Camden is certainly de
ieated unless he can buy Republicans, and
don't believe he can" Mason, however,
did not say who authorized him to make
the statement.
l asked General Bushrod Price to-day
fOI some statement as to his reason for re
manning out Of the caucus. He said he
had nothing to say on the subject further
than he was of the opinion that in the
end things will be so shaped as to insure
an amiGable adjustment Of the differences
between all the Democratic members on
the Senatorial question. The General
further said that it was not the policy or
intention OF the anti-caucus Democrats to
permit the Republicans to dictate SEN
atoF.
The Senate was in executive session to-